What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

William Walton, 5 bagatelles guitar concerto version.

[vandermolen]

I listened to that recording just a few weeks ago.  I only listened to Job though and not the 9th.

Listening to the Ninth now - I think that it's a fine performance.

[vandermolen]

Family circumstances have meant that I've had to miss RVW #9 this evening in Manchester  performed by the Halle Orchestra. I am a sad fox.

Playing this now as a compensation.

Hopefully you'll enjoy it. I think very highly of this Bergen performance.

[Symphonic Addict]

Looks like something I need to hear ASAP!

It's a cool piece, Kyle. It should be right up your street.

[Symphonic Addict]

Two new releases:

Carl Frühling: Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor
Maria Bach: Piano Quintet 'Wolga-Quintet'



The Frühling is a well-crafted work with some resemblance to Franck's style. Well worth-hearing.

The Bach inhabits a slightly different soundworld, more late-Romantic in style. A mellow, maybe too-sweet piece, but it has its charms. The opening is so beautiful.

Oliver Triendl is always a winner in this repertoire.

[foxandpeng]

Hopefully you'll enjoy it. I think very highly of this Bergen performance.

It is very good 

[Mandryka]

Listening to Lupu play Schumann's Symphonic Etudes, a concert recording from London in 2002. It's very good, he was a top draw Schumannist - it's a shame that more wasn't commercially released, though I suspect he was at his best in concert.

[Madiel]

Nearing the end of this set, (No. 13 & 14 I do not play for obvious reasons) I have to agree, it is a great set.

The reasons for skipping 2 of Shostakovich's finest works are not obvious.

[Todd]

More from Adburaimov.  This Rach 3 finds the pianist in fine form, but the whole affair sometimes lacks energy, comparatively.  It is not up to the pianist's crackerjack readings of Tchaikovsky 1 and Prokofiev 3.  Perhaps part of that is down to the accompaniment, perhaps something else.  The encore fares slightly better than in Abduraimov's recording of the Paganini Variations.  The main work is decent, but cannot match up to, say, Janis or Kocsis. 

[VonStupp]

Franz Schubert
Symphony 1 in D Major, D82
Symphony 2 in B-flat Major, D125

Vienna Philharmonic
István Kertész

VS

I have enjoyed Schubert's Lied, piano music, chamber music, and a host of choral music, but I never really spent much time with his Symphonies, aside from 8 & 9 (depending on your brand of numbering).

Of these first two, Symphony 2 made an impression on me. The bustling opening movement and the contrasts of major and minor struck me much more strongly compared to the first.

Now on to:

Franz Schubert
Symphony 3 in D Major, D200

Vienna Philharmonic
István Kertész

So far, I love the jaunty clarinet of the opening proper in the 3rd Symphony.

VS

[classicalgeek]

On Kyle's recommendation:

Arthur Benjamin
Symphony no. 1
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth
(on Qobuz)



An epic piece, both in scale and substance. The first movement and third (slow) movement both rise to cataclysmic climaxes; they surround a spooky, disjointed scherzo with its own intense outbursts. The finale is a bit of a letdown, kind of light in character in contrast with the three movements that preceded it. On the whole, a rewarding and enjoyable work.

[Symphonic Addict]

Kats-Chernin: The Offering



What a wonderful piano quintet.

[VonStupp]

NP:

Novák
Toman and the Wood Nymph, Op. 40
Brno State PO
František Jílek



I have to say VonStupp, I'm enjoying this! It has some Straussian and Sibelian undertones to it that are, of course, right up my alley.

Yes, and I would think that would attract me. I seem to remember a lot of sensuality and mood setting, but it never came together for me. That's OK, there is plenty more of his music to enjoy.

Lady Godiva is a more satisfactory work in my view.

I do like this one too! 

VS

[Linz]

Mahler Symphony 8 with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra & David Zinman

[bhodges]

Coming up in a half-hour:

Mariel Roberts, cello / Maya Bennardo, cello, live from JACK in Brooklyn

New works for cello and electronics by Mariel Roberts

Plateaus in an open field (2022) by Maya Bennardo
Lightning Field (2022) by Mariel Roberts
New work (2022) by Lester St. Louis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtvBFmqM9D0

--Bruce

[Karl Henning]

Cracking this box open:

CD 1
JSB
Harpsichord Cto in E, BWV 1053
Harpsichord Cto in D, BWV 1054
Harpsichord Cto in A, BWV 1055
Cto for fl/vn/hpschd in a minor, BWV 1044

[DavidW]

Haydn's 13th symphony and Aho's 4th symphony, I think I will pull the trigger on the latter.

[André]

CDs 1 and 2, Johann Strauss I and II.

In between acts of Rheingold and Walküre...

[Mapman]

I have enjoyed Schubert's Lied, piano music, chamber music, and a host of choral music, but I never really spent much time with his Symphonies, aside from 8 & 9 (depending on your brand of numbering).

Of these first two, Symphony 2 made an impression on me. The bustling opening movement and the contrasts of major and minor struck me much more strongly compared to the first.

No on to:

Franz Schubert
Symphony 3 in D Major, D200

Vienna Philharmonic
István Kertész

So far, I love the jaunty clarinet of the opening proper in the 3rd Symphony.

VS

I also really like that clarinet theme! I think the 3rd is my favorite of the early Schubert symphonies; it's just so happy. I also quite like the finale of the 4th: it's weird, in a good way.

[VonStupp]

I also really like that clarinet theme! I think the 3rd is my favorite of the early Schubert symphonies; it's just so happy. I also quite like the finale of the 4th: it's weird, in a good way.

I think you are right; happiness is the key here. I also see you play clarinet, so I understand the appeal; I love the clear, woodsy tone of that instrument.

I look forward to progressing to the Tragic 4th. If I didn't do so before, welcome to the forum Mapman!

VS